“Everyday Use By Alice Walker”
Heritage is an important factor of, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. Given that that heritage is very important because it represents where people come from. It gives the reader an understanding of how people portray what heritage means and what it actually really means in the story. The family which represent the “concept of heritage as expressed by the Black political movements of the 60s”(Hoel, 1). Throughout the story the narrator's point of view, creates characters and setting which create theme and conflict between Dee and Mama.
This short story is told from first person by Ms.Johnson who is also the narrator and also the protagonist. Mama worked hard to be not only the main character but also described as “big boned woman with rough, man-working hands”(Walker, 486). As we continue to read the story we see through the narrator's begins to introduce us to
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She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!" She held the quilts securely in her arms”(Walker, 490). Ms.Johnson begins to explain to Dee that a “promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas."(Walker, 490). Which of course upsets Dee because by having a successful education it entitles Dee to know more about heritage which in this case it does not because using something every day is appreciating something valuable on the wall. The antagonist would be Dee which makes her “successful”(Mullins, 1) “of the text thus reveals that "Everyday Use" has set a complex narrative trap, building up these troubling stereotypes only to tear them down in the end, and revealing Dee as hero, not villain.”(Mullins,1). Ms.johnson stands up for Maggie after always being on Dee side. Mama realizes that Dee is wrong and learn to appreciate Maggie more because Maggie is the one who does appreciate